Steam has a "South Africa" region now
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Necuno
The Piper
IS for long time now had a steam server. webafrica joined in recently. however this does not guarantee that game X is on server A or B as the servers get their content pushed from valve.
to0kenZA
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Yes I know about the IS one, but that wasn't really official?
As for the Webafrica one, I thought only people with Webafrica accounts could download from there, as it was part of their "freezone" thing?
I know, one of the IS admins told me that the content trickles in very, very slowly.
As for the Webafrica one, I thought only people with Webafrica accounts could download from there, as it was part of their "freezone" thing?
I know, one of the IS admins told me that the content trickles in very, very slowly.
czc
Thread Killer Mk VIII
The webafrica server on the list here: http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/ no longer says filtered.
shadowfox
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MyGaming did an article for WebAfrica subscribers a short while ago that tell you how to use SteamWatch, which is a little proggie that monitors the port Steam uses and literally blocks any IP that you haven't whitelisted in the config XML-file. Go have a read.
Only drawback is that you'll need to find out what the IPs of the local Steam servers are - I only know of the IS and WA servers; not sure if there are others. If someone has them maybe they can supply them in this thread? Contrary to what people are saying, the WA server isn't limited to WA subscribers - it's just the only one registered on WA's Freezone - so anyone should technically be able to download via it. I think. Don't quote me on that.
WA subscribers have compiled a list of games they've confirmed on the server here. No idea how accurate or up to date it is.
Only drawback is that you'll need to find out what the IPs of the local Steam servers are - I only know of the IS and WA servers; not sure if there are others. If someone has them maybe they can supply them in this thread? Contrary to what people are saying, the WA server isn't limited to WA subscribers - it's just the only one registered on WA's Freezone - so anyone should technically be able to download via it. I think. Don't quote me on that.
WA subscribers have compiled a list of games they've confirmed on the server here. No idea how accurate or up to date it is.
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Crzwaco
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MyGaming did an article for WebAfrica subscribers a short while ago that tell you how to use SteamWatch, which is a little proggie that monitors the port Steam uses and literally blocks any IP that you haven't whitelisted in the config XML-file. Go have a read.
Only drawback is that you'll need to find out what the IPs of the local Steam servers are - I only know of the IS and WA servers; not sure if there are others. If someone has them maybe they can supply them in this thread? Contrary to what people are saying, the WA server isn't limited to WA subscribers - it's just the only one registered on WA's Freezone - so anyone should technically be able to download via it. I think. Don't quote me on that.
WA subscribers have compiled a list of games they've confirmed on the server here. No idea how accurate or up to date it is.
Yeah you could use steamwatch and that would then tectonically use local cap but you still need to have international cap to be able to log on to the servers. So you would probably have to use routesentry/trafficsplitter.
Yes there is only 2 South African Content Servers at the moment. We all have downloaded that stuff from the Steam server on WA side and asaik it stays on the server.
And yes the WA server use to be only for WA people but since then they have opened it to everybody so steam might push the content faster to the server. But yeah it still takes a while for new games to be on there.
The server still falls under the freezone but only if you the consumer can get it to work.